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INTRODUCTION xxix
p. i $a 34. Scél Túain maic Cairill do Fhinén Maige Bile,
' Túan son of Cairell's story to Finnén of Mag Bile' (Moville).
The end is wanting owing to lacuna.
Other copies : Laud 610, f. 102a ; Ravvl. B. 512, f. gyb, and
H. 3. 18 (T.C.D.). f- 38a.
Edition : Kuno Meyer. Two texts and translation, in
Appendix A. to Voyage of Bran, vol. ii, 1897.
The poems, for the sake of which H interpolated p. 16, do not
occur in the Rawl. and H. 3. 18 copies, which otherwise follow
LU., nor in Laud, which is a different recension.
p. 17. DáBrón Flatha Niwe,'The two sorrows of the Kingdom
of Heaven.' Beginning wanting, owing to lacuna.
Other copies : LL. (Facs. 280a); YBL. col. 170 (Facs. 120b
25) ; Book of Fermoy 114a ; Paris Bibl. Nat. Celt. 1, 27^.
Edition : Georges Dottin : Les deux chagrins du royaume
du ciel. (RC. xxi, 349-87, i90i)Text, translation, and commen-
tary.
p. iga. Mesca Ulad, ' Intoxication of the Ulstermen.'
Imperfect, owing to lacuna at the beginning.
Other copies: LL. (Facs. 261b) imperfect; Edinb. MS. XL,
p. 49.
Edition: W. M. Hennessy : Mesca Ulad. Text and transl.
of LL. and LU. (Todd Lecture Ser. I., 1889).
Analysis and discussion by R. Thurneysen : Die irische
Helden- und Konigsage, 192 1, p. 473 ff. ; Aine de Paor : The
common authorship of some Book of Leinster texts (Eriu ix,
118 ff.).
p. 20b 32. Táin Bó Dartada, ' The Cattle spoil of Dartaid.'
Opening lines only, owing to lacuna.
Other copies : YBL. col. 644 {Facs. p. 53^ 34). Egerton
1782, f. 80 r\ Brit. Mus. Add. 33,993, f. 1.
Editions: Ernst Windisch : Vier klcine Táin, mit deutscher
Uebersetzung (Irische Texte 2 Ser. II., 1887); R. Thurneysen:
Text from B.M. Add. (Zu irischen Handschriften u. Littera-
turdenkmalern. p. 90-92, 1912); A. H. Leahy: Heroic romances
of Ireland, II, 1906, translation only.
Analysis and discussion by R. Thurneysen : Die irische
Helden- und Konigsage, 1921, p. 303 ff.
p. 2\a. Táiu Bó Flidais, 'The Cattle spoil of Flidais.'
Opening lines wanting, owing to lacuna in MS. Interpolated.